Posts by Hairtrigger

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How did you feel when you got baptized?

by Schnufti in

back in 2005, i remember sitting in the stadium in the special rows with 42 others.

8000 people were looking at us - maybe even with a binocular - while listening to the speech.

my family and my friends among them, being all proud of me.. i don't remember being enthusiastic.

Hairtrigger

I know women feel a little wet

As for me....wanted to be hung out to dry.

Had too much to drink the previous night and went under tipsy!

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one day, the biblical god decided all humanity, less 8 individuals and some animals, should die via mass drowning, including infants, children and physically and mentally disabled people.. he expected rational people to listen to a seemingly oddball old man and enter a giant box filled with wild animals.

"god told me to warn you.

enter this thing and you will live".

Hairtrigger

Well the moral of the story dear Hobo ...rainbows often morph into boomerangs!

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Restless Days and Nights

by compound complex in

jw
friends

it is a bad time to be awake;.

i see things i do not wish to see.. i have feelings i do not wish to feel.. if i could return to sleep, the deception.

of sweet slumber would assure that even a. nightmare might offer an escape, escape from.

Hairtrigger

Slumbers dark curtain enfolds me unbidden

In black chains

Arresting long forgotten thoughts buried deep

Pulling me into an abyss

As I plunge past stony

Watchtowers

of confusion

through uncharted realms...

Of fantasy ...macabre, bold , terrifying and rarely

Satisfying

Only a silver whisper unshakles me

From the hideous prison

That darken my consciousness

A whisper that yells

Awake!

33

Most Widely Circulated Magazine In The World

by Calebs Airplane in

which magazine is now the most widely circulated in the world?.

before responding, keep in mind that certain parameters (such as content and page count) ought to be met before any printed material intended for mass distribution can be categorized as a “magazine”.

for example, the absolute minimum range for any publication to be considered a magazine is typically around 32 to 48 pages while the highest page counts are usually around 128 to 160, with some popular women’s fashion magazines coming in quite a bit higher than that.. so with that said, which is now the world’s most widely circulated magazine?.

Hairtrigger

"Most widely read magazine ....watchtower!"

For those with eyes where the sun don't shine !

WATCHTOWER: The best asswipes after regular toilet paper!

35

Do JWs Regard You As An APOSTATE?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i doubt people consider me an apostate but you never know.🤓.

Hairtrigger

Oppostate

..."I was born a Catholic and left it..."

Ditto. At age 19...

Became a JW 30 years later... fast forward 7 years and realized the bible was a book of lies and the GB was it's spawn...an incestuous pit of corrupt philosophy and predetorial charlatans masquerading as the answer to all of man's problems.

Why it took me 7 years to see through them is a mystery to me...No not so. Information about them only became available to me 3 years into my sojourn as a JW.

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Do JWs Regard You As An APOSTATE?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i doubt people consider me an apostate but you never know.🤓.

Hairtrigger

Who gives a damn...

You can take yer religion and shove it!!!

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Interesting conversation with a JDub regarding kingdom songs.

by joe134cd in

was out side a jdubs house while they were playing kingdom songs.

this is how the conversation went.. me: did you realize that one of their kingdom songs was a copy from the jurassic park theme song.. jdub: where did you find this.

me: hey i've got the down load to the movie, and that theme song has a striking resemblance to that song you just played.

Hairtrigger

Good looking, well dressed humans till their necklines...beyond that - pure impenetrable concrete...best modern , new hardware available at the moment .

To seal the Oroville dam fracture!!

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The perfect answer if you get asked to go to the memorial

by pepperheart in

i will go next year :-) .

Hairtrigger

"We invite you to attend the memorial of the death of Jesus Christ"

What do you guys do there?

"We honor the death of Jesus as he has asked us to do"

Did he ask you guys to honor pedophiles too?

" Of course not. Why do you bring up that question"

Because your organization protects pedophiles ..that is elders and others ..with your "two witness" rule.

"And where did you get that information?"

From court douments in the UK, Australia, and a host of other countries.Not the least the US of A.

"Oh I don't have that information".

Convenient . Tell me are you married?

"Yes"

Children?

"Yes two"

Has anybody, your children who live with you included ever witnessed you and your wifes intimacies? I don't want to seem crude but I'm trying to make a point here so bear with me.

"Of course not."

Then no "two witnesses" exist who can testify that you and your wife have ever had sex. Why ? Because sex is a private act, unless you are in the porn industry.

How do you people expect a child to produce two witnesses who have seen him/her raped by an adult ? Do pedophiles have two man audiences when they are perpetrating their evil deeds?

"No . Definitely not."

So then. Why do your leaders protect the thousands of pedophiles within your org. With the "two witness" rule? A rule given to you by your God yu say?

"Yes It is from our holy book The Bible. But there must be some explanation about that , some more details about the "two witness" rule that we are following of which I am not aware of at the moment". I feel you have been misinformed about our organization."

NO my good man It is you who is misinformed. Now as for your invitation. I'll start attending the memorial of your man jesus whose god is Jehova as is yours- when you come back with a justifiable answer as to why yu protect pedophiles..and in effect your god and his son jesus since he made that rule..with a rule that has no relevance in this modern world? There are policing methods that can establish rape quickly if the victim is allowed to be examined by a medical professional immediately after the attack but your organization prevents that from happening by encouraging victims and their parents to be quiet about it and wait on Jehovah.

"I don't believe this. Where do you get all this information from"

I've already given you that answer. Do some research into your organization's policies and the come back and we'll discuss this. If you come back soon enough with some satisfactory answers maybe we could go to the memorial together.

A sick smile and he disappears into the afternoon sun...

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Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.

mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.

Hairtrigger

I've seen school plays that are superior in every way to the crap presented in the JW dramas. What used to freak me out was the way they spoke of the dramas after - as if they had just witnessed a Tony winning performance worthy of being cast on Broadway. That's the problem with JW land . Conditioned mentally to believe everything they do is the best.Like their public speaking. The crappy gestures and injunctions given out by a long outdated book that they use. That make for crappy speakers that they produce. Even the bible reading was pathetic. Especially the eldubs. I have never been more bored by anything I've seen or heard than the dramas , talks and bible reading at the JW performances.

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Take a look over my shoulder

by Doug Mason in

i have assigned myself a probably impossible task: i want to see if i can pick out the highlights of the evolution of judaeo/christian soteriology (doctrine of salvation).

i am making available the first draft very rough ideas of two chapters at:.

http://www.jwstudies.com/take_a_look_over_my_shoulder.pdf .

Hairtrigger

I mirror Terry's views here. One of the best threads in much, much a long time.

This is gonna keep me awake I know.

Looking forward to the thread growing .